OK, I was able to solve this.When I typed "java -version" at the command line, it told me 1.6.0_31, so I thought I was running the latest.But when I later looked at the JAVA_HOME env var, which maven uses, it pointed to an old 1.5.0 JDK.One I pointed it to a newer 1.6.0_31 jdk, mvn ran fine.

Regards,Lars

On 3/22/2012 12:24 PM, Lars Huttar wrote:> Hi all,> I'm sorry if this is off-topic, but I've googled the maven mailing > lists for this and found nothing.> (http://maven.markmail.org/search/?q=rsa+premaster+secret+error)>> I was able to run maven (and thus use C3) on my development desktop > machine (running Windows 7).> But when I tried running maven on another machine, I got the following > mysterious error output:>> D:\Apache Group\c3>mvn -X -e archetype:generate > -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.cocoon.archetype-parent > -DarchetypeArtifactId=cocoon-archetype-parent > -DarchetypeVersion=3.0.0-beta-1-SNAPSHOT -DgroupId=org.sil > -DartifactId=theParent -Dversion=1.0-SNAPSHOT > -DarchetypeRepository=https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots/>> ...> [INFO] Archetype defined by properties> Downloading: > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots/org/ap> ache/cocoon/archetype-parent/cocoon-archetype-parent/3.0.0-beta-1-SNAPSHOT/maven >> -metadata.xml> [WARNING] Could not transfer metadata > org.apache.cocoon.archetype-parent:cocoon-> archetype-parent:3.0.0-beta-1-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml from/to > cocoon-archety> pe-parent-repo > (https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots/):> Error transferring file: RSA premaster secret error>> I've googled around other places and found advice to the effect that > something is "stuffing up the child JVM's bootclasspath in a way that > causes the crypto libraries to break".> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2152988/rsa-secret-premaster-error> However I have no idea how to address that problem.> Install a new version of Java and make sure its JRE is at the front of > the classpath?>> Is there a way to just tell maven not to use https?> I tried changing the repo URL to use "http" instead of "https", but > that just gave me a bunch of checksum warnings and XML validation errors.>> Thanks,> Lars>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@(protected)> For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@(protected)>>